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NASA detects mysterious signal 240 million light years away from Earth

Astronomers have detected a mysterious signal 240 million light years away from Earth, in the Perseus Cluster (top), one of the most massive objects in the Universe. The unidentified signal is a “spike of intensity at a very specific wavelength of X-ray light.” Scientists don’t know yet what is the origin. One of their theories…

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Scientists discover new material that makes objects invisible to touch

You’re looking at a new awesome nano-material invented that does the seemingly impossible: It hides things from touch. Just a thin layer of this amazing polymer will hide anything under it from being perceived by your sense of touch. In this photo you can see how it “absorbs” a metal cylinder. How is this magic…

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I would gladly pay real money for this fake retro Kill Bill game

I’m ready to pay my $2.99 for this Kill Bill game, which looks like a Kung-Fu Master/Shinobi hybrid. Heck, I would pay $2.99 for Volume 1 and $2.99 for Volume 2. Too bad we can’t: It’s just one of those videos for imaginary 8-bit retro arcade games by those cockteases at Cinefix. Bastards. Watch, want,…

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Beautiful calligraphy video may cause pleasure overdrive

Last Friday I published a video that caused many to discover autonomous sensory meridian response, a perceptual phenomenon that gives a pleasing tingling sensation. Some said they got it watching people writing. Well, put your headphones on, because this is the mother of all calligraphy ASMR videos. It’s a demonstration of a fountain pen—a Namiki…

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I want to eat the Bill Murray burger every day for the rest of eternity

It doesn’t have anything to do with Bill Murray, but I want to eat it anyway: The patty is “seared on the outside, medium rare on the inside, with a molten core of melted cheese and creamy sous vide egg yolk.” I want to get sucked into a Groundhog Day time warp hole and eat…

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Why has Curiosity slowed down its course during its first Mars year?

The Mars Curiosity Rover has completed its first Mars year in the Red Planet—687 Earth days exploring and drilling on its way to its first destination—Murray Buttes. Overall, it’s been a Mars year full of successes, even if we haven’t found proof of life in Mars yet. But the rover has slowed down significantly. Why?…

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The Earth looks flat in this photo taken from space

Believe it or not, some idiots think that Earth doesn’t rotate and others still think that Earth is flat. I’m sure the latter group would love this picture just taken by our space Captain America—astronaut Reid Wiseman. The angles on those two coasts converging makes Earth’s spheroidal surface look strangely flat. The image shows the…

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Every national anthem in the world mixed into one single song

They should make this the anthem for the World Cup or the Olympics: The national anthems of all the countries in the world—193 of them—mixed in one song. It doesn’t sound that bad at the beginning and then it starts getting crazy. Finally, it gets scary when all the final crescendoes ramp up simultaneously. According…

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Mysterious “Magic Island” appears on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan

A mysterious new geographical feature has appeared on Saturn’s moon Titan. These two Cassini’s radar images show a “mysterious geologic object” surfacing in the Ligeia Mare, Titan’s second largest sea. Cornell University’s astronomers call it “Magic Island” because they are puzzled by its origin and nature. According Jason Hofgartner—a Cornell’s graduate student and lead author…

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These are the coolest amateur rockets I’ve ever seen

Bamboo rockets are really cool. They are wheels with a central rod full of solid fuel and nozzles that spin into the sky until they stop and fall back to Earth on a parachute. Or explode. It’s a big thing in Thailand—so big that they celebrate festivals to watch them fly and broadcast them on…

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Spectacular photos of the US Navy’s most powerful battleship ever

This is the USS Iowa, the first of the largest, most powerful battleship class ever in the United States Navy, equipped with nine 16-inch (406mm) guns that could fire nuclear shells—the only American ship in history with this capability. This photo series is old but still stunning. Those nine guns firing simultaneously is a terrible…

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Famous characters look more badass with cool beards on them

Vanja Mrgan has imagined what different famous characters would look like with beards. From Robocop to He-Man to Batman to Wario to Popeye to Porky Pig to Boba Fett to Snoo—Reddit’s alien mascot—they all look quite cool. Some even better than the real thing (like Popeye, Wario, and even Batman!) Vanja Mrgan is a brilliant…

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Watching desperate polar bears searching for ice is truly heartbreaking

This beautiful video shows something terrible: How polar bears now have to swim for incredibly long distanceslooking for ice to hunt their prey without being seen. Many of them drown. Some get back to land and die later, exhausted and starved. All thanks to the collapse of the northern ice sheets. According to NOAA, NASA,…

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15-year-old prodigy girl draws amazingly well and trains falcons too

This is the amazing Emka Klučovská, a 15-year-old Slovakian who draws amazingly well. Her birds illustrations are perfect—and so are her superheroes and monsters. And on top of that, this awesome girl is also a falconer (although she’s holding a golden eagle in this photo.) Here’s some of her work. Other illustrations and 3D artwork…

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Here’s an easy trick to make glass totally invisible

Even when you are only seeing one test tube disappear into this beaker, there are another two more inside. In fact, there’s also a beaker hidden inside, completely invisible to the eye. How is this sorcery possible? SCIENCE. It’s a clever trick to try at home for those of you who never took chemistry classes:…

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These A-10 Warthogs look like perfect miniatures but they are real

These A-10 Warthogs have to be models shot against a gradient background, right? Wrong, apparently. It’s an official US Air Force photo straight from their Flickr account, taken by Senior Airman Sierra Dopfel with a crappy Canon PowerShot ELPH 130 IS, according to the EXIF data. A pair of Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft…

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Watching this video can send intense pleasure waves down your spine

Do you experience autonomous sensory meridian response? If the answer is “yes” or “don’t know,” put on your headphones, make this video big, and watch it. If you do, the sound and the action will send intense waves of pleasure up and down your spine. By the way, I can’t believe this is how they…

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Nobody can survive walking barefoot on the diabolical Lego Firewalk

The Lego Firewalk has to be the most twisted, most diabolical, most cruel invention ever created by humankind. There’s no way in heaven or hell that anybody can survive this walking barefoot without collapsing into a sobbing mass of trembling flesh, furthering the excruciating pain. If you want to try it, go to the Bull…

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How can anyone take this awesomeness for granted?

Think about it. Really. Think about what you are looking at right now. That’s Oleg Artemyev and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov—photographed today by Reid Wiseman—just doing their job, floating between Earth and the nothingness at 4.8 miles per second. If that’s not awesome, I don’t know what is. Can you see them? SPLOID is a new…

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This is SpaceX’s secret sauce to land its reusable Falcon 9 rocket

See those black fins moving on the surface of this Falcon 9R rocket? That’s SpaceX’s magic sauce. These steerable surfaces will allow used rocket stages to safely land back on Earth, ready to be refilled and launched again. This on-board video of their new 1-kilometer-high test show how they work. According to SpaceX, this flight…

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NASA detects mysterious signal ​240 million light years away from Earth

Scientists discover new material that makes objects invisible to touch

I would gladly pay real money for this fake retro Kill Bill game

Beautiful calligraphy video may cause pleasure overdrive

I want to eat the Bill Murray burger every day for the rest of eternity

Why has Curiosity slowed down its course during its first Mars year?

The Earth looks flat in this photo taken from space

Every national anthem in the world mixed into one single song

Mysterious “Magic Island” appears on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan

These are the coolest amateur rockets I’ve ever seen

Spectacular photos of the US Navy’s most powerful battleship ever

Famous characters look more badass with cool beards on them

Watching desperate polar bears searching for ice is truly heartbreaking

15-year-old prodigy girl draws amazingly well and trains falcons too

Here’s an easy trick to make glass totally invisible

These A-10 Warthogs look like perfect miniatures but they are real

Watching this video can send intense pleasure waves down your spine

Nobody can survive walking barefoot on the diabolical Lego Firewalk

How can anyone take this awesomeness for granted?

This is SpaceX’s secret sauce to land its reusable Falcon 9 rocket

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NASA detects mysterious signal 240 million light years away from Earth